Tuesday, March 30, 2010

no leavening for you!

Here's lunch time in the kitchen at etsy headquarters in Brooklyn. I posted a report of my behind-the-scenes tour over at Two Shear Spirits, my much neglected blog with Joan Tapper. Go, look, read. It was peeking behind the curtain in Oz. Except without that weird wizard guy or multicolored horses. But with Toto-like dogs.

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Happy Passover to those observing. I made kickass matza balls last night. I was so pleased with this particular batch I wanted to photograph them in their partially cooked glory. But, is there any cuisine less photogenic than Ashkenzaic Jewish? I'd have had to suspend operations and style them beyond reality. So, instead, here's a link about the White House seder. Growing up, this is a scene that we'd maybe imagine in a comedy sketch, in that ironic stretching the humor way. An African American president leading a seder? In the White House? Love it!

8 comments:

You are so right, Gale, about beige Ashkenazy food! I photographed our my Seder dinner plate and it was a very boring brown, beige with a bit of green...not springlike at all! Those Sephardics have it ALL over us in the food department! Happy Pesach! Matzah Brickle for dessert!